QSHEC


Welcome to QSHEC- The team behind the team

safety first, quality always.

Roy Griffin, Head of QSHE

QSHEC is the system employed to ensure our employees are safe, products are compliant and the impact to the environment is minimised. This is managed through our bespoke BSI ISO certified Integrated Management System (IMS) that ensures compliance with applicable legislation and compliance standards installing trust to our customers.

Our “safety first quality always” philosophy defines who we are putting employees at the front and ensuring customers’ expectations are exceeded.

Health, Safety and Wellbeing

Our team is the driving force behind everything we do.

Our goal is to ensure that all employees and stakeholders are safe in our care and understand their role in health, safety, and wellbeing. Our user-friendly occupational safety system allows engagement for all. Guided by our golden rules, which help identify critical risk areas, our safety programs promote a proactive approach to risk management. To further reinforce this commitment, we have developed the Occupational Health and Safety Management System that is certified to ISO 45001:2018 by BSI that drives our commitment to ensuring zero harm to employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

RoSPA overview

RoSPA is a not-for-profit organization that has been dedicated to helping people recognize and reduce the risk of accidents for over 100 years—at home, on the road, at work, and during leisure. Our partnership with RoSPA reflects our commitment to ensuring that all employees can live their lives to the fullest, both safely at work and beyond.

Quality Management

Our commitment to excellence is reflected across our various quality programs, which incorporates best practices in manufacturing, rigorous testing to ensure our products are fit for purpose. Our drive to continual improvement is reflected in the quality tools implemented across New Product Development projects.

Our Quality Management System is ISO 9001:2015 certified by BSI, reflecting our unwavering commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.

Product Quality Control (QC)

Our integrated QC and QA programs are crucial in ensuring that products meet specified requirements and customer expectations. These programs help maintain product consistency, reduce defects, and ensure compliance with industry regulations, preserving our high level of customer satisfaction.

Zendesk – Customer Complaint Management

If, on the rare occasion an error occurs we use Zendesk to manage the process and resolve these concerns quickly and effectively. Zendesk is our ticketing system used to manage customer interactions and resolve concerns or questions. It facilitates seamless information flow, assigns responsibility, and tracks progress throughout the ticket’s lifecycle. This enables us to monitor performance, measure results, and identify trends for continuous improvement.

New Product Development (NPD) QA

Our NPD QA is essential in developing and validating product designs and ensuring compliance. Our team provides reassurance that newly developed products meet the initial requirements before progressing to the manufacturing stage. Embedded within our design and project teams, NPD QA adds value, skills, and expertise to enhance project success and meet customer expectations. The quality tools employed to enhance this process include:

– APQP – Advanced Product Quality Planning
– PPAP – Production Part Approval Process (QC)
– DFMEA – Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
– PFMEA – Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
– DVPR – Design Verification Plan & Report

Sustainability

We recognize our corporate responsibility and are committed to managing our environmental impact through compliance with legislation, best practices, responsible stewardship, and continual improvement as outlined in our Sustainability Strategy. We aim to create a safer future by adopting more sustainable practices in product development, manufacturing, and delivery. By reducing material use, reusing when possible, and partnering with certified recycling providers, we are dedicated to minimizing our environmental footprint. Our Environmental Management System is ISO 14001:2015 certified by BSI.

Environment social governance (ESG)

We are committed to acting with integrity and meeting the highest corporate standards. We have a adopted a number of policy statements as part of our overall compliance frameworks and the Senior Leadership Team oversee the compliance frameworks.

Sustainability

As a business, we continue to strive to do as much as we can to make the world safer, for today and tomorrow, aiming to have a positive impact on people and the planet, whilst supporting our customers to make more responsible choices, purchase decisions and meet their own sustainability goals.

Product carbon footprint

Our product ranges are examined and a detailed assessment of their components and subsequent impact to the environment. This has allowed us to individually assess each products CO2 footprint.

Carbon reduction

We are taking action to reduce emissions from our direct operations (Scope one and two emissions). Examples include the use of electric company cars and vans, using only 100% renewable energy and energy efficient lights and timers across the offices.

Minimal operational waste

We are continually looking at options to reduce packaging and waste in our own operations and throughout our supply chain and have eliminated waste going to UK landfill. What waste cannot be recycled or reused is redirected for energy.

Recycled material

We are committed to reducing the amount of packaging we use, and where packaging is necessary, we have increased the recyclable elements. We instigated reuse policies across the manufacturing process; from plastic bags, carboard boxes, up to regrinding our manufacturing scrap for recycling. Our inhouse regrind facility ensures non-compliant products can be recycled back into production. Plastic we cannot recycle is sent through approved partners for further use in other industries.

Compliance

Our commitment to be compliant across all legal and regulatory requirements is essential in our commitment to supply our customers. We have a broad range of global legal and compliance standards, including CE, UL, ASSE, ACS, VA, Watermark, and DVGW. Compliance to these standards provides our customers with the assurance that our products are not only high quality but meet the highest safety and regulatory standards worldwide.

Accelerated life testing of pumps

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Extended functionality test

Prototype testing

Customers’ chemical compatibility testing

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Compliance testing

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Firmware testing

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Software testing

Mechanical life testing